Education protest in San Jose May 17

The Campaign for Quality Education and Californians for Justice brought out around 150 high school students and others to Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown San Jose in the early evening of May 17 to commemorate the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling.

Said Chris Lepe, a community organizer at the event: “School systems continue to be segregated. A lot of schools in minority communities don’t get so much funding. There’s way more credentialed teachers in the West Side than in the East Side. Test scores are still lower in minority communities.”

In the words of a leaflet handed out at the event: “Still Separate, Still Unequal, Still Fighting!”